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A Moderate Defense Of Hate Speech Regulations On University Campuses, W. Bradley Wendel
A Moderate Defense Of Hate Speech Regulations On University Campuses, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The regulation of hate speech on public and private university campuses is a fiercely contested and divisive issue. Professor Bradley Wendel defends the middle ground in this debate. This Essay argues that concerns about abuses of power by those in positions of authority are unfounded when an institution possesses greater expertise in a domain than the citizens who are affected by the institution’s decision, provided that the institution is acting on the basis of reasons that are shared by the affected individual.
Free Speech And Valuable Speech: Silence, Dante, And The 'Marketplace Of Ideas', James Boyd White
Free Speech And Valuable Speech: Silence, Dante, And The 'Marketplace Of Ideas', James Boyd White
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This Essay is a slightly expanded version of the inaugural Mellinkoff Lecture in Law and Humanities, presented at the UCLA School of Law last April in honor of the memory of Professor David Mellinkoff, the distinguished author of ground-breaking work on the nature of legal language. It addresses four related questions. What is the nature of the kind of speech and expression that realizes most completely the human capacity for finding and expressing meaning? How does our own world of public speech measure up to that standard? How, indeed, does our own talk in the law measure up, especially our …